BasilZero said: What? How would they do that? Doing this would damage their plan to expand. Development costs especially for Playstation Studios is astronomical and C-suite execs want bigger numbers which is why their branching out to releasing their games on outside of Playstation. The same reason why Microsoft is releasing their games on PC as well. |
If they changed their plans and saw Steam as a competitor platform again.
Of course it would damage the brand now, but there's only one reason any developer would leave their third-party launchers intact on Valve's platform: to keep a foot on the door and tie these games back to their own ecosystem if they want to down the line.